<p>I am using various characters in my parameters, eg&nbsp;</p><p>Name=Stéphane</p><p>but I can't declare the datatype required - my only option is 'string' and it needs to be NVarChar</p><p>eg the follwoing does not work</p><p>&lt;parameter name="Name" value='[[Url:name]]' datatype="string" /&gt;&nbsp;</p><p>in .NET would be</p><p>SqlParameter parameter =newSqlParameter(); parameter.ParameterName="@Name"; parameter.SqlDbType=SqlDbType.NVarChar; parameter.Direction=ParameterDirection.Input; parameter.Value= Name;</p><p>which would work. The Xmod Pro datatype option is only for string - please help?</p>